Don’t poke the transphobes
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Note to self: Do not engage in debates with assholes in the comments of popular blogs. Do Not Engage. DO NOT ENGAGE! DO NOT ENGAGE!
This lesson is brought to you by anti-transgender assholes, anonymous trolls, and David Letterman’s #1 in the “Top Ten Messages left on the pregnant man’s answering machine.”
Thomas Beatie, a transman, recently told his story in The Advocate. Basically, because his wife couldn’t have a child, he stopped taking hormone (testosterone) treatment so that he could get pregnant through artificial insemination. Beatie will be on Oprah today, so I’m sure we’ll hear more about it.
Look, I see it quite simply, calling someone a “freakshow” based on their gender identity, the way they create a family, or for having the courage to openly discuss the things that make them “different” is uncalled for and offensive. That I even have to defend this point of view is appalling. Even more so when I have to defend these ideas with gay men who only weeks ago were upset at the death of Lawrence King.
